Getting Started in Stata and R - DSS at Princeton University

Getting Started in Data Analysis using Stata and R

"Finding the question is often more important than finding the answer"
John Tukey

The Stata, R, and other documents presented here provide the basic tools to get you started in data analysis.
Hope you find the tutorials useful.

Training site
Data
DSS website only

Getting started series: Stata

Finding Data (and crafting research questions)	Stata tutorial	Fixed/random effects (Panel data)
Data Preparation & Descriptive Statistics	Linear Regression (Stata)	Logit & Ordered Logit regression
Exploring poll data	Multilevel Analysis	Factor Analysis
From NLS Investigator to Stata	Accessing World Bank data using Stata	SAS to Stata
Nice output tables using outreg2	From Stata 13 to 10-12	Predicted probabilities and marginal effects after logit/probit
Merge/Append using Stata	Time Series	Reshape data using Stata
...	Intro to data visualization	Differences-in-Differences
Using Stata in Princeton Virtual Desktops (PVD)	Using Stata in Adroit	Missing data using Stata

Getting started series: R

R~Stata: Notes on Exploring Data	Linear regression	Fixed/random effects (Panel data)
Merge/Append using R	Additional resources	Reshape data using R
Nice output tables in R	Introdution to RStudio	Accessing World Bank data using R
Time Series topics	Logit, odds ratio, predicted probabilities and marginal effects	Differences-in-Differences
Cubic interpolation	Applying same R code to multiple files	Fuzzy merge
Data Visualization with R	Using RStudio in Adroit	...

Online training/help series

Data 101	Stata Tutorial (online)	SPSS (links)
Statistic/econometrics (links)	Regression & more (links)	Matlab
Datastream	R	Bloomberg guides

Descriptive statistics (Excel/Stata/R)

Transpose in Excel	Descriptive Statistics	.
Location	Variability	Distribution
Z scores	Confidence intervals	Coefficient of variation
Example using Excel	Example using Stata	Example using R

Miscellaneous Topics

Data Transfer Between Statistical Packages using Stat/Transfer	SAS programs to extract WRDS data: TAQ, COMPUSTAT	XML to Excel
...	Tools for data analysis	Topic Selection and Crafting of a Research Question
H drive (Windows)	Excel example	H drive (Mac OS X)

For general questions regarding data sources, statistics, software or additional training please contact DSS at data@princeton.edu.

Please report any error, typos, questions or broken links in these pages to Oscar Torres-Reyna (otorres@princeton.edu).

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